Haggerston Park
Haggerston Park is an open space in Haggerston, Hackney. It occupies the space between Whiston Road (to the north), Hackney Road (south) and St Anne's Priory, Queensbridge Road (west) and Goldsmith's Row (east).
The park is of recent provenance, dating from the 1980s. It was carved out of an area of derelict housing, a tile manufacturer, and the old Shoreditch gasworks.
Haggerston Park contains a small but luxuriant nature reserve and a number of football pitches. It is also the home of the Hackney City Farm, which abuts the main park area to the southeast, on the site of a former brewery.
Haggerston Park, one of the few formal landscaped gardens in Hackney, was laid out in 1956. Also dating from the 1950s is a long pergola walk on the north side of the park. In the 1980s the park was extended to the south to include a Hackney City Farm, a children's playground and playing fields.